Archive for April, 2006



Most people probably aren’t going to care about this, but I want to share this so no one else has to go through the same pain. A few things are fairly hackish, but hey, it works. Much thanks goes to Nicholas Riley in helping me figure this out.

Download the cyrus-sasl tarball from http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/sasl-library.html

The newest version […]

MailCore 0.2 adds a few bug fixes and it’s built as a universal binary. Most importantly I fixed a few SMTP/MIME related bugs. Now that those bugs are fixed, SMTP works great. I have two working examples, InboxLister, which is a minimal IMAP client in like 15 lines of code and MessageSender, which sends e-mail […]

Due to the way Spotlight is designed, it is very difficult to index monolithic databases, as in all the data stored in one file. Spotlight works by monitoring the file system for modifications, like a file being created or a file being saved. When a file system event occurs, Spotlight identifies the type of file […]